May 23–25, 2013
Vernissage: May 22 (by invitation only)
Cda-Projects
Art Basel Hong Kong 2013
Booth No. 1C23
Cda-Projects is delighted to announce its participation in Art Basel Hong Kong. İpek Duben, Zeren Göktan and Nazlı Eda Noyan are presenting works that invite the audience to actively engage with the facts and emotions surrounding domestic violence.
With LoveBook (2001), İpek Duben bares witness to domestic violence by hand printing media representations of the crimes on stainless steel pages. LoveGame (2001) suggests an abandoned casino setting, where Russian roulette is played by betting on feelings and causes surrounding domestic violence.
With Counter (2013), Zeren Göktan builds an online memorial to deceased women due to domestic violence, which can be accessed through QR codes imbedded in beaded nets fabricated by male prisoners with beadwork that is traditionally practiced in prisons. Through this ‘gateway’ the viewer is invited to scan the code that leads to the memorial website, where a digital counter indicates the number of women deceased in Turkey due to violence since the beginning of 2013. Imagery used by the prisoners is subverted by the artist and woven into the shrouds to remind the viewer of the imminent violence many women face in Turkey.
Nazlı Eda Noyan’s video animation, Dream-Optimism-Ayşe (2011) departs from the media representation of Ayşe’s murder. Noyan searches for the codes of a dream that turns out to be a nightmare. The work aims at giving a voice to Ayşe, whose ability to communicate and right to live have been taken away. It is a quest for hope that can withstand the violence.
İpek Duben (b. 1941) lives and works in Istanbul. She recently had a retrospective at Akbank Art Center, Istanbul. Her works are in the collections of important museums, including Istanbul Modern Museum and The British Museum, London.
Zeren Göktan (b. 1975) lives and works in Istanbul. Her selected exhibitions include Counter, Cda-Projects Gallery (Turkey, 2013), Photo Biennale Greece (Greece, 2013), Uncanny Encounters, Istanbul Modern Museum of Art (Turkey, 2011), Untitled Original, Cda-Projects Gallery (Turkey, 2010), Is there any hope for an optimistic art?, Moscow Museum of Modern Art Zulak Gallery (Russia, 2010), 10th International Istanbul Biennial (Turkey, 2007), and Breadzone, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center (Turkey, 2005).
Nazlı Eda Noyan (b. 1974) lives and works in Istanbul. She has three solo shows including DNA-nen, Cda-Projects Gallery (Turkey, 2012) and some of the group exhibitions she participated in are Figure Out, ArtSawa (UAE, 2012), Untitled Original, Cda-Projects Gallery (Turkey, 2011), Istanbul Next Wave, Akademie Der Kunst (Germany, 2010), Finely Embroidered, Hafriyat (Turkey, 2008), The Means By Which We Find Our Way, Ramp Gallery (New Zeland, 2007), and Urban Flashes, Garanti Gallery (Turkey, 2004).
Currently on view at the gallery
Özlem Şimşek– Dramatic Persona
Cda-Projects
Istiklal Cad. Misir Apt. No:163 K.2 D.5
Beyoglu / Istanbul, Turkey
